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Adjective position in the code-switched speech of Spanish and Papiamento heritage speakers in the Netherlands: Individual differences and methodological considerations

Frontiers in Psychology, 2023
IntroductionThis study examines adjective-noun order in code-switched constructions by heritage speakers of Spanish and Papiamento in the Netherlands. Given that Dutch differs from Spanish and Papiamento regarding the default position of the adjective ...
Brechje van Osch, M. Carmen Parafita Couto, M. Carmen Parafita Couto, Ivo Boers, Ivo Boers, Bo Sterken   +5 more
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Él Code-Switches More Than tú y yo: New Data for the Subject Pronoun-Verb Switch Constraint

Languages, 2022
In early studies, code-switches between a subject pronoun and a finite verb were considered highly dispreferred or even impossible. However, naturalistic data from several language pairs has since highlighted that such switches are possible, although ...
Kate Bellamy, Hans Stadthagen-Gonzalez, M. Carmen Parafita Couto   +2 more
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Situating language register across the ages, languages, modalities, and cultural aspects: Evidence from complementary methods

Frontiers in Psychology, 2023
In the present review paper by members of the collaborative research center “Register: Language Users' Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation” (CRC 1412), we assess the pervasiveness of register phenomena across different time periods, languages ...
Valentina N. Pescuma, Dina Serova, Julia Lukassek, Antje Sauermann, Roland Schäfer, Aria Adli, Felix Bildhauer, Markus Egg, Kristina Hülk, Aine Ito, Aine Ito, Stefanie Jannedy, Valia Kordoni, Milena Kuehnast, Silvia Kutscher, Robert Lange, Nico Lehmann, Mingya Liu, Beate Lütke, Katja Maquate, Christine Mooshammer, Vahid Mortezapour, Stefan Müller, Muriel Norde, Elizabeth Pankratz, Elizabeth Pankratz, Angela G. Patarroyo, Ana-Maria Pleşca, Camilo R. Ronderos, Camilo R. Ronderos, Stephanie Rotter, Uli Sauerland, Gohar Schnelle, Britta Schulte, Gediminas Schüppenhauer, Gediminas Schüppenhauer, Bianca Maria Sell, Stephanie Solt, Megumi Terada, Dimitra Tsiapou, Elisabeth Verhoeven, Melanie Weirich, Melanie Weirich, Heike Wiese, Kathy Zaruba, Lars Erik Zeige, Anke Lüdeling, Pia Knoeferle, Pia Knoeferle, Pia Knoeferle   +49 more
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Decision Algorithm for the Automatic Determination of the Use of Non-Inclusive Terms in Academic Texts

Publications, 2020
The use of inclusive language, among many other gender equality initiatives in society, has garnered great attention in recent years. Gender equality offices in universities and public administration cannot cope with the task of manually checking the use
Pedro Orgeira-Crespo, Carla Míguez-Álvarez, Miguel Cuevas-Alonso, María Isabel Doval-Ruiz   +3 more
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Psycholinguistic Evidence for Incipient Language Change in Mexican Spanish: The Extension of Differential Object Marking

Languages, 2021
Spanish marks animate and specific direct objects overtly with the preposition a, an instance of Differential Object Marking (DOM). However, in some varieties of Spanish, DOM is advancing to inanimate objects.
Begoña Arechabaleta Regulez, Silvina Montrul   +1 more
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Relativized temporal phrases: Language variation and change in contemporary Portuguese

Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2023
This paper discusses the use of relativized temporal phrases as a domain of particularly intense variation and change in contemporary Portuguese. Various phenomena indicative of competition among linguistic forms (with a special focus on the standard ...
Telmo Moia
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Address forms in Tatar spoken in Finland and Estonia

Open Linguistics, 2023
Tatar minorities have lived in Finland and Estonia as a multilingual diaspora for more than a century. This study explores how the different generations of Tatars living in Finland and Estonia perceive polite forms of address, focusing on the choice of ...
Sild Orsolya
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Phonological Differences Across Varieties of Latin American Spanish

Canadian Journal for the Academic Mind, 2023
Latin America is a diverse linguistic landscape, evident in the extensive phonological variations within its dominant language, Spanish. This study explores the phonological diversity across Latin American Spanish dialects, including processes such as ...
Kathryn Jajo-Yacoub, Mariana Ramirez
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DNA Variation and Language Affinities [PDF]

The American Journal of Human Genetics, 1997
Populations tend to diverge genetically because of genetic drift, but their differences are reduced by the exchange of individuals or gametes—in brief, by gene flow. The evolutionary weight of drift depends on a property of each single population—its effective size.
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A language for software variation research [PDF]

Proceedings of the ninth international conference on Generative programming and component engineering, 2010
Managing variation is an important problem in software engineering that takes different forms, ranging from version control and configuration management to software product lines. In this paper, I present our recent work on the choice calculus, a fundamental representation for software variation that can serve as a common language of discourse for ...
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